A 15-year-old has been arrested on suspicion of murdering Keon Lincoln in Birmingham.

Plans to create an old Walsall care home into a house to support asylum seekers and homeless people have sparked fears amongst neighbours.

A Brierley Hill homeless project to get rough sleepers off the streets is set to open this spring despite fears it will house ex-offenders and former drug addicts.

A landmark Dudley town centre building where Woolworths was originally located is undergoing £100,000 of restoration works.

A woodland-based support service for children and young people has been granted permission to station a shipping container in a South Staffordshire park.

A new housing development has been given the go ahead in a South Staffordshire village despite more than 100 people objecting to the plans – and fears it will affect an historic site.

Ministers have been urged to launch a “complete step-change” in home learning to prevent inequalities worsening while schools are closed.

A woman was rescued from the River Severn near Bridgnorth.

Car dealership chain Lookers swung to a £50 million loss in 2020 as Covid-19 forced its showrooms to close for large parts of the year.

Wolves boss Nuno Espirito Santo has donated £250,000 to a new project aimed at helping reduce food poverty in the community.

A defendant in the trial of three men accused of murder outside a Black Country cannabis farm told police one of the victims had called him for help.

Barclays is set to close another local bank – with bosses claiming reduced footfall was behind the decision.

Councils in the Black Country and Staffordshire are among dozens without a policy for prosecuting blue badge parking abuse, figures show.

A 50-year-old Wolves fan died in "very rare" circumstances after he was pushed outside a pub while intoxicated, a jury inquest heard.

A former West Midlands regional secretary of Unite has launched a second bid for national leadership of the country's biggest union.

The life of one of the founding members of Willenhall Rugby Club has been celebrated by family and friends.

People have been urged to stop spreading "damaging" misinformation about the Covid pandemic online.

A woman who has a lifetime's love for cuddly toys has now started her own business to save discarded "friends".

A new company has launched that will offer to build websites for Black Country firms as discounted prices.

West Midlands Police has apologised after a man was challenged by an officer on his way to work in an incident shared in a viral video.

A further 78 coronavirus patients have died in hospitals in the Black Country, Birmingham and Staffordshire.

Police forces across the region have recruited more than 600 new officers since a Government recruitment drive started, new figures reveal.

A 23-year-old soldier from Staffordshire took his own life while serving overseas, an inquest found.

Moves which could see Hartlebury Parish Hall used as a Covid-19 testing centre have been delayed because of a wrangle over potholes in the car park.

An urgent warning has been sent to employers reminding them of the need to protect their staff against the new variant of coronavirus.

A family says they have been left traumatised after police seized their pet dog from their Black Country home.

Staff are set to be made redundant at the Grand Theatre in Wolverhampton as the coronavirus crisis continues to hit the entertainment industry hard.

An air ambulance, police and paramedics were called to an incident in the Black Country.

A teenage driver whose car knocked down a dog-walker and killed her pet has pleaded guilty to causing serious injury by dangerous driving.

The West Midlands is braced for further flooding and more snow this weekend – with a severe weather warning issued for the region.

A mother of three from Walsall is keeping families fit from the comfort of their own homes.

A row has erupted in Dudley after councillors offered to drive residents to Covid-19 vaccination appointments.

An organisation set up to help those on furlough in the run up to Christmas has continued to work into the New Year.

Council tax is expected to increase by 4.99 per cent – as Sandwell Council continues with a £30 million scheme which gives people on low incomes a 100 per cent reduction in their council tax.

Councillors in Staffordshire have agreed not to increase their allowances for the year as staff face a pay freeze.

A frontline NHS worker has attacked the government as the number of deaths across the country passed 100,000 this week, saying the situation is "dire".

More than a dozen new family homes could be built on land which used to house a thriving Walsall community centre.

Residents in one of Wolverhampton’s most deprived neighbourhoods have given a thumbs up to a new £800,000 park being built near their homes.

An “ashamed” Walsall shopkeeper faces a battle to keep his licence after he was caught selling illegal cigarettes on four occasions.

Plans to build three new homes on the site of a former pub beer garden in Bilston have been given the go-ahead.

CCTV footage of the moment a Brierley Hill man was allegedly shot accidentally with a crossbow by his brother has been shown to a jury at Wolverhampton Crown Court.

A balaclava-wearing carjacker stole a vehicle from a driver as he defrosted his windows in the Black Country.

A campaign has been launched to help vulnerable residents get the Covid jab as fears rise about the spread of misinformation.

It was almost the perfect murder. To all the world, Gurpreet Singh looked like a grieving husband whose wife had been cruelly snatched from him by burglars during a break-in at the family home.

A husband has been sentenced to life in prison after he was found guilty of murdering his seamstress wife at their Wolverhampton home.

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Councillors have given the green light for a bungalow to be built on a Rugeley garage site.

Emergency services were called to a two-car crash in Brierley Hill.

Covid infections in Dudley are falling but health bosses are warning residents not to be complacent and stick to lockdown rules.

The Rank Group slipped to a £48.6 million pre-tax loss in the last six months of 2020 after a challenging first half of its financial year.

Council tax in Staffordshire is set to rise by nearly five per cent in a bid to address growing demand in social care.

Volunteers have come to the rescue of desperate ICU staff driven to breaking point by Covid-19 and forced to appeal for help with basic wellbeing items.

Two cousins are preparing to tackle a mountain challenge, dressed as grannies in aid of a hospital.

New images have been released showing what Dudley’s new £18 million leisure centre will look like.

Families who suffer the heartbreak of losing a baby at birth can now spend time together in a homely, private space thanks to a £70,000 fundraising appeal.

Mums-to-be in and around Pelsall can expect a more personalised approach to their care thanks to a new initiative.

The Ladder for the Black Country is actively supporting the ‘Rewrite the Story’ campaign by the Black Country Consortium to recruit enterprise advisors to support secondary and special education need schools across the area.

Just one year ago two friends took the brave leap to launch their own business creating handmade bespoke outdoor buildings.

Production at a vaccine site in Wrexham has been stopped while police and Army investigate a suspect package.

Two men have been charged after a serious disorder which saw several weapons brandished.

A senior police officer who spearheaded efforts to bring a "callous" husband to justice has welcomed the guilty verdict after almost three years of police work.

A further 97 coronavirus patients have died in hospitals in the Black Country, Birmingham and Staffordshire.

A man has been jailed after he rammed a stolen car at a police officer on a motorbike in the Black Country.

A Black Country man has been jailed after admitting to a number of child sex offences, having travelled nearly 90 miles to abuse a child.

Job losses created by Covid could see poverty in Dudley become "rampant" as the number of benefit claimants increase over the coming months, it has been claimed.

A woman was attacked and robbed in her own home in the Black Country after arranging a date through a popular app.

Councils are expecting to deal with cases of Covid-19 into the 2030s, a Midlands expert has told MPs.

West Bromwich Albion have been given a boost after plans to enhance facilities at the club's Walsall-based training ground were given the go-ahead.

A man has pleaded guilty to the murder of a father in Wolverhampton.

A brave young girl has organised an energetic fundraiser in aid of Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.

A former pub doorman told an inquest he instinctively pushed a customer who then fell to the ground and struck his head because he thought he had been stabbed.

Police have been granted extra time to question two boys arrested in connection with the murder of schoolboy Keon Lincoln.

A man and a woman suffered serious injuries jumping from a first-floor window of a blazing house in Birmingham.

A man died on the tracks at a train station in Dudley yesterday evening.

A group was fined £200 for driving around without a reason before telling police the pandemic was not real.

Eighty per cent of new Covid cases in Sandwell are from the more recent and contagious strain of the virus, the borough's director of public health says.

More than 80 per cent of Covid cases in Dudley are the new more contagious variant.